Michael Bailey
@michaelb92.bsky.social
Recording & Mix engineer. Music maker. Eejit.
One time I had a bunch of about 30 things in an Apple note that I needed to put into a Python dictionary. Dead easy but time consuming. Couldn’t be bothered with the typing so I used AI to do it… completely fucked it and I had to go through checking and inputting manually anyway. I think I’ll live.
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterdayGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
He’s. A. Fundamentally. Decent. Man™️®️©️
Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 2d agoEx-PM Starmer said, in response to Raise the Colours terrorising people, ‘I am supporter of flags’, ‘I’m very encouraging of flags. I think they’re patriotic and I think they’re a great symbol of our nation’ and his family had ‘got St George’s flag in our flat’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
A real work of art on the part of the british political-media class that if you explain all the mental shit that goes on to someone who doesn’t really follow politics, it’s *you* who will sound like the mental one.
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d agoEven I am taken aback at the new and surprising ways these people find to insult the public’s intelligence and make it more clear the only operative professional standard in force is “LOL fuck you”
The MP for ‘protecting women and girls’ eulogising a wife beater and nonce case, aye? Quelle surprise
Libby@captainlibatron.bsky.social · 3d agoDear god
Maybe Zack Polanski and that guy in the photo are just XTC fans with an interest in French history. Anyone ever stop to think of that?!
Looks comfortably 15 years older than his 47 years, by the way. Hate ageing you and all that…
Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · last wk.The fact that this is a coordinated push with Reform is deeply deeply disturbing. This is one of those times for cis liberals with a platform to sit up and listen. This should worry us ALL removepaywalls.com/https://www....
Such an insufferable cunt his own guide dog tried to get him killed a couple of years ago
Metal Gear Solidarity@mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 3w agoThat the same David Blunkett who colluded with the Sun to demonise refugees and famously shrieked "machine gun the lot of them" on the phone about a prison riot? Said towns were being swamped with migrants? Said Roma had to change their behaviour? Has Burnham just declared himself a racist prick?
Crazy how much money the arts is worth to the British economy, how much we excel in the field on a global level, and how it is treated with total contempt by every government of my adult life.
Arts Professional@artsprofessional.co.uk · 4w agoPerforming and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of “difficult decisions” about spending priorities, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said.
Signs of a healthy democracy that nobody - be it opposition parties/leaders (with maybe one exception) or journalists - in a position to do so will do anything more than shrug at the obvious shenanigans that have taken place here.
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · last mo.Going from “Getting caught setting private investigators on the Sunday Times and trying to report them as Russian stooges”, to “inexplicably pardoned then given a Times column to knife his pals and promote a new PM” and then “oh wow, uh, Head of government policy unit” is quite the career path.
Still, nice to see Anders Breivik’s favourite newspaper columnist stop beating around the bush and *at last* say what she means in unambiguous terms.
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · last mo.I again point out that “The Bolsheviks are conspiring with the untermenschen to sap our will to power, and - by hidden, sneaky means - to undermine and destroy the Reich” is not just similar to the content of Mein Kampf. *It is* Adolf Hitler’s sales pitch, it was right at the core of the project.
The SCG lot who have stuck around there… Lads, you are NEVER getting your party back. It is over. Have some self respect for god’s sake.
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · last mo.Shouldn’t this be more of a thing for the commentariat generally, given it seems the Labour Together lads are implicated in what looks - to my untrained eye - very much like *actual criminal offences* involving undeclared bungs, secret investigations and quite likely election rigging?
‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs leader of the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party
Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 2mo ago🚨 NEW: A Labour source says Keir Starmer feels "betrayed" "He gave everything to Labour, including sacrificing much of his children's teenage years to help make the party electable. He feels deeply betrayed, especially by those he believed were loyal to him"
That episode of The Simpsons where they thought they could give Itchy & Scratchy a shot in the arm by introducing ‘Poochie’
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 2mo agoEXC -MPs loyal to Starmer have said they will rally round Darren Jones if the PM decides to resign - to prevent a Burnham coronation. “He would have the numbers of the PM does not run,” one MP said. The coordination has been done with those who signed a loyalist letter in May
Russians! I knew it was them! Even when it was the loyalist thugs, I knew it was them!
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe’ve identified the culprits for the racist riots, folks. You won’t believe
I’m only a little bit joking when I say Britain is a rare example of a country where if the government started locking up journalists and declaring them enemies of the state, it would actually increase the score on the democracy index.
Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 2mo agoUK papers this morning are horrendous, exemplified in the Times editors saying the ultimate cause for fascist unionists in Northern Ireland conducting a pogrom, burning houses and attacking non-white people in the streets is ‘legal and illegal immigration’, calling it a ‘national security risk’
Is it just pure vanity, him wanting to be PM? Is he just jealous of the attention Starmer gets as the most hated man in the country?
Minnie Rahman@minnierahman.bsky.social · 2mo agoPoliticians should understand that Reform's positions extend to British people of colour, and that is reason enough not to follow their lead. A network of campsites across the country is not a sign that something is fixed. It's a sign something is deeply broken. www.thenational.scot/news/2617801...
Everyone is very anti-AI, but have you considered that it might soon put a lot of guardian journalists out of work?
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago‘A driver of political violence’: how the breakneck AI boom is fueling anti-tech extremism
Cheer up lads. I’m sure a Gen Z Pinochet will be along any moment now…
The Economist@economist.com · 2mo agoThe next generation of illiberal leftism is gaining ground. It is time to fight back econ.st/3RPYFPV
Look, you just aren’t ever going to have a country worth living in until the British media is completely and utterly destroyed. Rotten to its core.
Sky News@news.sky.com · 2mo agoHenry Nowak murder's has highlighted the debate on whether UK police are anti-white
They have successfully kicked the grieving families of the three British aid workers Israel deliberately murdered in an air strike a couple of years ago into the long grass, so I wouldn’t expect anything at all here.
elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 3mo agoTranslation: the UK will do absolutely nothing
I remember when this guy once suggested it was antisemitic for RMT workers to be on the picket line.
Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 3mo agoSO funny and based!!!!!!
Quite difficult to say your government will always champion peaceful protest when you spent last summer arresting elderly vicars for holding up placards though, no?
Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3mo ago“We’re in a fight for the soul of this country, and the Unite the Kingdom march this weekend is a stark reminder of exactly what we are up against." Some robust Keir Starmer words ahead of the far right march in London.
Even if Burnham could be trusted, and truly does want to take the country in a more progressive direction, you still have the wing of the Labour party that have demonstrated time and again that they would suicide bomb the entire thing forever before ceding an inch to the left. They’re a lost cause.
Caroline Lucas@carolinelucas.bsky.social · 3mo agoI hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote
If it happens, that scene in The Big Short where they say Christian Bale’s character has ‘hit half the town’ buying swaps will be me in every bookies who’ll give odds on Streeting being the first serving PM to lose their own seat in a general election.
Tom Usher@tomusher.bsky.social · 3mo agoYou couldn’t get a more “Starmer” type appointment than Wes Streeting. And if it wasn’t for the fact that Reform are the ones waiting to take over, I’d really enjoy seeing just how much being PM will tear his reputation to pieces, probably much worse than it’s even done to Starmer
He’s despised by every electorate he comes into contact with, but he is the lads in the media’s boy… so look forward to Prime Minister Wesley, I guess.
Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · 3mo agoLabour Leadership Voting Intentions: Starmer Vs Burnham: Burnham: 61% Starmer: 28% Starmer Vs Miliband: Miliband: 46% Starmer: 39% Starmer Vs Rayner: Rayner: 45% Starmer: 41% Starmer Vs Streeting: Starmer: 53% Streeting: 23% Via @labourlist.bsky.social - 1,124 Members, 13-14 May.
I dunno how you can look at the appeal system in cricket and tennis and decide to not use VAR in the same way? Having your cake and eating it too.
James Benge@jamesbenge.bsky.social · 3mo agoSorry but can you imagine the spectacle if, let's say, Arteta had burned his one challenge for that handball penalty in the second half and there was no way to get England to have another look at it? Absolute cinema.
I regret to inform Pesto’s source here that actually it is very possible to hate the Labour Party on an institutional level *and* Keir Starmer on a personal level.
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3mo agoMildly aggravating how the same clueless dimwits that breathlessly reported every piece of drivel and horseshit from one disastrously failed government after another, without serious analysis, just dust off their hands and declare “Well, I guess that’s another one fucked, what’s for breakfast”.
